First Appearance: Hostess
Advertisement: Spider-Man in "Break the Bank" featured in various
Marvel Comics (October, 1977)

Powers/Abilities: Printout
Man showed no superhuman abilities, but was highly skilled in
computers,
mathematics and banking. He created a computer or reprogrammed
computers, using these "Mad Computers"
to break into banking systems and steal money and account information.

History:

("Break the Bank") - Printout Man
began to steal account information using his "Mad Computer" in an
attempt to take over a bank, using it to also jam the bank's computer
systems. Watching from around a
corner, the Printout Man began to gloat that soon the angry bank
customers would cancel their accounts and he would be closer to
fulfilling his evil plan.

Peter
Parker, while standing in
the line with Mary Jane, had his spider-sense kick in and he realized
that something was not right in the bank. He quickly changed into his
Spider-Man costume and started chasing Printout Man around the
bank. Making his way to the vault, the Printout
Man’s true motive was revealed as the massive door opened.
Spider-Man
quickly realized that all he really wanted to do was steal all the
Hostess
cupcakes that the bank had been safekeeping. The Printout Man was soon
taken away by
the police.

(New Avengers Most Wanted Files) -
The Printout Man was mentioned to be still in prison serving
out the remainder of his sentence as a model prisoner.

(Fin Fang Four Return!#1/5) - The
robot Elektro, mistakenly identified as a villain and arrested, was
ushered into the prison's S-Wing where he met various past Spider-Man
villains,
including Printout Man. Later, inspired by Elektro's defiance, he and
the other inmates of S-Wing smashed their way out only to be subdued by
the prison guards using sedation foam.

Comments:
Created by an unidentified writer, penciler and inker.

Of all the Hostess
villains, only
Icemaster
has shown up in an Earth-616 title. He could have crossed
over to Earth-616 from "Earth-Hostess," but I say leave them on
Earth-616 until proven otherwise. Nonetheless, until they do show up in
regular continuity, they remain outside regular canon. Surely someone
will write a story teaming them all together.--- Snood.

This is not true anymore
as some Hostess ad villains were mentioned in
the Fantastic Four Encyclopedia as natives of Earth-616. And
now
we have Printout Man cited in the New Avengers Most Wanted Files.

And now they've been
found! ... in a dark corner of an ignored prison...

I wonder if Printout Man
has some connection to the Human
Computer? They'd make a perfect team -- that is, if they're
not the same person.
--John Kaminski

You can get the whole story, and some clever commentary from Seanbaby's
The Hostess
Page. It might not meet with the Comics Code Authority's
approval, so kids, ask your parents before checking that out!

His real name was revealed in Elektro's profile in OHotMU A-Z Update 2010#2.

Printout Man reprogrammed a series
of banking super-computers to hack into the bank’s data and
steal information on accounts, financial transactions and security
codes to unlock the vault. These were large and bulky machines that
were operated in a nearby room in the bank. They also seemed to subdue
the bank's customers into a mild stupor that was soon broken
with
Hostess cupcakes.